Justin Rose

There are manually operated scoreboards with plastic numbers and letters on every hole of the PGA Championship. Most are small enough that they can only accommodate seven players at any one time.

Charl Schwartzel, the South African champion of the 2011 Masters, matched the PGA record Friday morning by shooting 7-under-par 63 at Bellerive Country Club to get into a tie for fourth, and the volunteers never bothered to put him on the board.

This is a tough crowd, tearing up an extraordinarily easy golf course for a major championship.

Before an afternoon thunderstorm halted play for the day and dumped rain on the course, Brooks Koepka joined Schwartzel in scoring 63, and he...

Related "Justin Rose" Articles

There are manually operated scoreboards with plastic numbers and letters on every hole of the PGA Championship. Most are small enough that they can only accommodate seven players at any one time.
Charl Schwartzel, the South African champion of the 2011...

Lunch was going to taste particularly good to Rickie Fowler.
Out early and having finished off an opening round of 5-under-par 65 that put him comfortably in the lead of the PGA Championship, Fowler could see the breeze beginning to ripple the flags at...

In the pack of a dozen men most closely trailing Patrick Reed heading into the third round of the Masters, eight are major champions.
If Reed hadn’t already considered that, he was reminded when a reporter noted it Friday evening. He was asked what...

Two years ago, the 80th Masters was approaching.
All the chatter and projections about who would be the 2016 champion at Augusta National was about the young “Big Three” — Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Rory McIlroy.
Spieth arrived as the defending...

The 18th hole on the South Course is the place to be on Sunday at the Farmers Insurance Open.
That explains why 11 chairs were positioned adjacent to the greenside rope line an hour before any players had even taken the tee.
Only three of the chairs...

C.T. Pan had gained a stroke and was tied for fourth place, two shots behind the leaders as he stood on the third hole’s tiny tee box Sunday morning.
The setup at No.3 was extremely short at 142 yards, into a two-level green surrounded by a canyon with...

Walking along a nearly deserted cart path some two hours after the first tee shot was struck on a Saturday at a PGA Tour event, a man and his son were in search of greatness.
The Farmers Insurance Open leaders wouldn’t tee off for another 15 minutes,...

So much in Xander Schauffele’s career has changed in a year.
One thing hasn’t.
“I cruised in in my Camry today,” he said with a smile on Tuesday at Torrey Pines.
The Toyota Camry was the symbol last year of how Schauffele’s sudden success on the PGA...

With no pro-am for this week’s Tour Championship in Atlanta, the players are asked to do other tasks to interact with the sponsors.
San Diegan Xander Schauffele chose to attend a breakfast with Coca-Cola executives at East Lake on Wednesday morning,...

You remember that sweet stroke from Jon Rahm, right? The shot that won the Farmers Insurance Open in January? The moment the 22-year-old Spaniard calls the best in a young career that includes a Top 10 spot in the World Golf Rankings?
To Rahm, it’s a...

Six weeks removed from the second of two offseason hernia procedures, Phil Mickelson always believed he’d return to 100 percent health in time for the Waste Management Phoenix Open, this week’s stop on the PGA Tour. He’s spent the last two weeks giving...

Tiger Woods didn’t make the cut Friday but did some major surgery on the Farmers Insurance Open.
He amputated its legs.
His groupies, hugging the cardboard tree of hope that Tiger could win this golf tournament — kind of like thinking Dean Spanos...

Here comes the assault on the greens, a flurry of club-wielding snipers growing more confident by the stroke. Here comes the sun-soaked window to alter scorecards and muddy leaderboards.
When players step onto the South Course at Torrey Pines for...

Two golfers will go to bed Saturday night with a share of the lead entering Sunday’s final round of the Farmers Insurance Open, which is about where the similarities between them end.
One, Brandt Snedeker, is a two-time Ryder Cup player, a FedEx Cup...

For 41 weeks while at Georgia Tech, Ollie Schniederjans was the No. 1 amateur in the world. To get on track after missing three straight cuts to start his first full season on the PGA Tour, the 23-year-old rookie rediscovered a stroke of old:
Hard,...

It’s a PGA Tour-playing parent’s version of stretching out, with a whiff of risk but endless smile-stoking reward.
The fact that Friday morning began with defending, two-time Farmers Insurance Open champion Brandt Snedeker fighting off a bedroom attack...

Two rounds into his fourth stop at Torrey Pines, Tyrone Van Aswegen is making himself at home.
And why shouldn’t he?
The 35-year-old from Johannesburg, South Africa, became a U.S. citizen in San Diego in June 2013 alongside 750 others. Van Aswegen –...

Golfers usually spend the Monday before a golf tournament on the course playing a practice round.
Stewart Cink spent Monday afternoon at UC San Diego’s medical center, with his wife Lisa, for 3½ hours, while she had monoclonal antibody treatment for...

Adam Hadwin was talking about his opening 66 on Thursday afternoon, a shot behind leader Justin Rose and the day’s best score on the longer and harder Torrey Pines South Course at the Farmers Insurance Open.
“I think,” the 29-year-old Canadian said, “I...